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La Partenope fiesta, : que se hizo en el Real Palacio de Mexico el dia de San Phelipe, por los años del Rey nuestro señor don Phelipe V. (que Dios guarde)

by: Stampiglia, Silvio, 1664-1725; León, Nicolás, 1859-1929. fmo RPJCB; Alarca Vidal y Valda, Joseph Ignacio, 1859-1929. fmo RPJCB

Publication date: 1714

Topics: CSAIP, Imprint 17--

Publisher: En Mexico : Por los Herederos de la Viuda de Miguel de Ribera

Collection: jcbmexicoincunables; jcbspanishamerica; JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: Spanish

Text in Italian and Spanish on facing pages

Translated from Italian to Spanish and set to music by Manuel Zumaya. The Italian version was first performed in Naples, 1699. This work does not include the music

Beristáin (v. III, p. 325) dates this 1711, which is probably the date of performance. Medina records the press as active between 1714 and 1732

The "earlier" so-called 1711 printing (Medina, México, 2306, after Beristáin) is probably spurious

Although it used to be thought that La Partenope was "the first opera of any sort produced on American soil" (R. Stevenson, Music in Mexico), it is now known that it was anteceded by at least ten years by Tomás Torrejo⁸n y Velasco's La púrpua de la rosa, performed in Lima in 1701

Signatures: A-D⁸ E-V⁴ (A1, V4 versos blank)

Medina, J.T. México

Provenance of John Carter Brown Library copy: Nicolás León: bookplate; Joseph Ygnacio de Alarca Vidal y Valda: inscription on front fly leaf

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary vellum

Notes

No copyright, table of contents, chapters. Cropping of text may occur due to narrow margins. Gutter and glass may be captured to maximize readability.